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Canada: Mackenzie River, 'Amazon of North,' under threat
2013-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Alexander Mackenzie kept a careful record of his troubles 224 summers ago, scribbling about torments like cold, driving rain and clouds of ravenous mosquitoes as he paddled a bark canoe north to the Arctic. For days on end in early June 1789, he journeyed along the shores of Great Slave Lake, blocked at each turn by ice, searching with native guides for a route to the river that would eventually take his name. Some 600 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, lake ice was a constantly shifting barricade,...
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Report: Microsoft Considered, Ditched Plan for Amazon Rival
2013-06-22 02:34:07| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
If things had gone a little differently, Amazon and eBay might not have been the only places on the web to find things like ironic party napkins, UFO detectors, and hippie dog costumes.
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Amazon Adds Comic Book, Sci-Fi Stories to Kindle Fan Fiction Platform
2013-06-21 21:33:53| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Amazon's new Kindle Worlds fan fiction publishing platform today opened its doors to characters from the Valiant Entertainment comic book world, among others.
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Amazon Web Services: We'll go to court to fight gov't requests for data
2013-06-20 00:53:26| IT Services - Topix.net
Speaking at a cloud computing panel on Wednesday, an Amazon executive said the company contacts customers when it gets government requests for data stored in Amazon Web Services and will help customers fight such requests.
Amazon drops blogger affiliates in Minnesota to avoid sales tax
2013-06-19 06:54:21| Trucking - Topix.net
The move, which parallels those by other Internet retailers, is a response to an upcoming change in the state's tax law that applies to e-commerce.
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